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MINSK, 8 February (BelTA) – The Belarusian-Latvian ministerial consultations will take place in Minsk on 9 February, Dmitry Mironchik, head of the information and digital diplomacy office, spokesman for the Belarusian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, told the media, BelTA has learned.
The Belarusian delegation will be led by Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Oleg Kravchenko. The Latvian delegation will be headed by State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Andrejs Pildegovics....

MINSK, 1 February (BelTA) - The joint Belarusian-Swiss train factory Stadler Minsk will roll out the first train for the Minsk metro in Q3-Q4 2018, Deputy Operations Director at the state-run enterprise Minsk Metro Andrei Mikhailovsky told the media, BelTA has learned.
The four-car train will have two control cars (one at each end of the unit). It will be operated on line 2 at first and then on line 3. “This will be a modern train with open walkthrough gangways from end-to-end???. It...

MINSK, 24 January (BelTA) – The Chinese company China Datang Technologies & Engineering Company (CDTE) may take part in the implementation of investment projects of the Minsk Oblast electrical company Minskenergo, representatives of the Belarusian company told BelTA.
Cooperation prospects were discussed as a delegation of the Chinese company visited Minsk.
CDTE is one of China’s top five electricity producers. It was founded on the basis of State Power Corporation of China in...

MINSK, 18 January (BelTA) – Belarusian agricultural enterprises of all types (state-run agricultural enterprises, private farming enterprises, and personal subsidiary economies) turned out Br18.2 billion worth of agricultural products in 2017, up 4.1% from 2016 in comparable prices, BelTA learned from the National Statistics Committee of Belarus.
The top contributor is Minsk Oblast (23.8% of the country's agricultural output). It is followed by Brest Oblast (18.7%), Gomel Oblast...

MINSK, 8 February (BelTA) – In 2017 Belarus considerably intensified the talks on joining the World Trade Organization (WTO) and is intended to keep the pace, Belarus’ Minister of Foreign Affairs Vladimir Makei said in an interview to the Russian newspaper Izvestia, BelTA has learned.
“After a twelve-year hiatus, we held two meetings of the WTO working group on Belarus' accession in Geneva in January and September. During the meetings the WTO members expressed support for Belarus...

MINSK, 1 February (BelTA) – Belarus and Georgia will develop cooperation in trade, agriculture and tourism, Belarus’ Deputy Prime Minister Mikhail Rusy told the media after the meeting of the intergovernmental Belarusian-Georgian commission on economic cooperation on 31 January, BelTA has learned.
“Belarus-Georgia trade and economic relations and cooperation in the humanitarian, cultural and tourism sectors have been vibrant in the past two years. Rational approaches have been...

MINSK, 24 January (BelTA) – The election commissions have accredited 10,500 domestic observers for the elections of the 28th convocation municipal councils of deputies, BelTA learned from Chairwoman of the Central Election Commission (CEC) of Belarus Lidia Yermoshina on 23 January.
The Belarusian national youth union BRSM, the public association Belaya Rus, and the Belarusian Public Association of Veterans have the largest numbers of accredited observers. Foreign diplomats, who work in...

MOSCOW, 18 January (BelTA) – The Belarusian mechanical engineering company Belkommunmash has won a tender to sell ten modern low-floor trams for fast tram lines to the Russian city of Volgograd, representatives of the embassy of Belarus in Russia told BelTA.
The contract with the Volgograd city administration will be signed soon. It will stipulate the schedule for delivering the trams to a large mass transit system operator in the Russian city. The acquisition of the third batch of ten...